US Patent Issued to Appian on Sept. 8 for "Automated expression parallelization" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,973, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Appian Corp. (McLean, Va.).

"Automated expression parallelization" was invented by Brian Joseph Sullivan (Bethesda, Md.) and Matthew David Hilliard (McLean, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is capable of automatically adjusting or reconstructing a baseline expression to generate a parallelized expression. Evaluation of the parallelized expression provide a substantially similar output as the evaluation of the baseline query in more efficient manner. In some implementations, data indicating an expression to be evaluated on a primary thread of the one or more processors is obtained. El...